Eihwaz
yew·endurance·the threshold
Eihwaz comes when the old is ending and the new has no name yet.
The meaning
Eihwaz is the yew: the tree that stays green among the graves, poisonous and long-lived, rooted in the dark and reaching for the light at once. It is the backbone of things: endurance through change, strength drawn from facing an ending honestly instead of looking away. This rune stands at thresholds, in the strange hollow between who you were and who you are becoming, where the door behind has closed and the one ahead has not yet opened. It is where real change happens, and Eihwaz asks you to trust the thread that runs through it.
Where it comes from
Yews live for thousands of years, longer than any building, longer than most nations. The North planted them in burial grounds, where they stood green over the dead through every winter, and cut from their tough wood the finest bows. Many see in Eihwaz the world-tree itself, Yggdrasil: roots deep in the dark places, crown high in the light, the trunk that Odin hung upon nine nights to win the runes. It is the axis that holds the whole story upright: death and life growing from one wood, neither possible without the other.